Motivational Quotes

Change

Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

- Ward, William A.

Best Quotes about Change

In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

Freeman, James Dillet

The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Sallust

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

People do no change with the times, they change the times.

Shaw, P.K.

The more things change, the more they remain... insane.

Michael Fry and T. Lewis

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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The only practice that's now constant is the practice of constantly accommodating to change.

Mcgovern, William

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It is change; all yields its place and goes.

Euripides

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Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Paz, Octavio

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Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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There is nothing permanent except change.

Heraclitus

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

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Change tends to be viewed as a threat to our control.

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

Ramsay Clark

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One person's constant is another person's variable.

Gerhart, Susan

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Nothing that I can do will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice I can help the greatest of all causes -- goodwill among men and peace on earth.

Einstein, Albert

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

McLaughlin, Mignon

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

Waitley, Denis

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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.

Glasgow, Ellen

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They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

Ruskin, John

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Being ready isn't enough; you have to be prepared for a promotion or any other significant change.

Riley, Pat

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Change is inevitable. Change is constant.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

Johnson, Samuel

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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This isn't good or bad. It's just the way of things. Nothing stays the same.

Real Live Preacher

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When you're finished changing, you're finished.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Peak performers see the ability to manage change as a necessity in fulfilling their missions.

Garfield, Charles A.

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We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Einstein, Albert

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Believe, if thou wilt, that mountains change their place, but believe not that man changes his nature.

Mohammed

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

Wilde, Oscar

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Any time you sincerely want to make a change, the first thing you must do is to raise your standards. When people ask me what really changed my life eight years ago, I tell them that absolutely the most important thin was changing what I demanded of myself. I wrote down all the things I would no longer accept in my life, all the things I would no longer tolerate, and all the things that I aspired to becoming.

Robbins, Anthony

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To make a change often takes a lot of initial energy and effort. This is not unlike a rocket that expends most of its energy in the first few miles even though its destination may be hundreds of thousands of miles away.

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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.

Pickens, T. Boone

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus